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Suspects in British custody were plotting terror attacks |
2005-10-10 |
![]() The Sunday Times said they were thought to be planning multiple car bombings against targets across the country, using conventional explosives packed into cars and driven into crowded city centres. The newspaper also said they were linked to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the frontman in Iraq of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda terror network. The News of the World said they posed an imminent threat and were plotting another strike on London. "There is intelligence to suggest that they were planning some sort of attack in the UK," a senior counter-terrorism source told Times. "Things have changed since July 7. There was no way with the intelligence we had that we could let these people carry on doing the sort of thing we think they were planning to do." A British official told the newspaper. |
Posted by:Fred |
#1 "Things have changed since July 7. There was no way with the intelligence we had that we could let these people carry on doing the sort of thing we think they were planning to do." I guess I don't quite understand this comment. Does he mean that if there had not been a July 7th event that they would let "these people" carry on what {they} think they were planning to do?? I guess the Brazilian electrician option is now off the table and the UK cops just wait until the cars are loaded and someone starts the engine. |
Posted by: Jack is Back! 2005-10-10 10:37 |